PREPARING PUMPKIN LEAVES SOURCE by @specialgift.

in SteemFoods4 years ago

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Hello everyone,

I'm delighted to share with you one of my favorite dishes, pumpkin leave sauce or simply vegetable sauce.

In Nigeria, especially in the igbo culture, this leaf is locally referred to as "ugu".

  • Health Benefit of Pumpkin Leaves
    These leaves are loaded with vitamin A, C, calcium, and iron

They also increase fertility, fights against cancer, lowers cholesterol, fights diabetes, prevents infections, tackles convulsion and it is anti-ageing agent.

With these health benefits you would agree with me that this meal is so nitritous and healthy.

INGREDIENTS

  • Pumpkin leaves

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  • Cent leaves

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  • Fresh tomatoes

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  • One bulb of onion, fresh pepper, 5 cubes of seasoning

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  • 1/2 kilogram of fresh fish

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  • (crayfish) dried shrimps

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*palm oil

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PROCEDURES

Step 1
Let's dice and prepare our ingredients.

We'd wash and season our fish

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Allow to steam for just 5 minutes

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We'd get our tomatoes diced

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Onion diced
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We'd wash and slice the pumpkin leaves and cent leaves together

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We are grinding the fresh pepper and crayfish together

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Step 2
Let's cook!

Place the empty pot on the fire

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Add palm oil

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Allow it to steam

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Add onion and stir

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Add fresh tomatoe and stir

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Allow to steam for some minutes

Let's add the grinded pepper and crayfish
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Allow to steam
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Let's add salt to taste and seasoning

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Stir and allow to steam

Add the water from the steamed fish

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Allow to steam. This is how it looks like when it's steamed

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Then let's add our pumpkin leaves and cent leaves.

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Don't allow the leaves to boil for long, its more nutritous and healthy when it's fresh.

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And our vegetable sauce is ready

Best eaten with rice

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Thank you for taking out your time to go through my post.
Special appreciation to
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For your unusual support.

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This looks great. I like learning about different types of cooking. I did not know that pumpkin leaves were edible!

Sure, they are! Packed with loads of nutritional values. You can try them